LAS VEGAS -- One lightning-sparked wildfire was contained and firefighters were battling a second blaze Friday in a remote undeveloped part of the vast federal nuclear testing reservation formerly ...

Western Shoshone Principal Man Ian Zabarte, who lost his family members to diseases caused by radiation exposure, says it amounts to racism against Native Americans that the U.S. government detonated ...

High Country News’ twice weekly email newsletter includes our latest on-the-ground reporting and investigations from across the West. Zitzer is studying the effects on the Mojave Desert ecosystem of ...

A joint venture led by Northrop Grumman Corp. beat two major competitors to win a five-year, $2.5 billion Energy Department contract to manage and operate the Nevada Test Site. The contract is valued ...